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MEMORIAL 


REV.  WILLIAM  W.  PHILLIPS,  D.  D. 


PRINTED  BY  REQUEST  OF  THE  SESSION,   AND  OF  TUB  BOARD  OF  TRUSTEES 
OF  THE  FIRST  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH. 


NEW  YOEK: 
CHARLES     SCRIBNER     &     COMPANY. 

1865. 


[From  the  New  York  Evening  Post,  March  2Jth,  1865.] 

FUNERAL   OF   THE   LATE   DR.   PHILLIPS. 

The  funeral  services  of  the  late  William  W.  Phillips,  D.  D.,  were  held 
in  the  First  Presbyterian  Church,  Fifth  Avenue,  on  Thursday,  23d  inst.,  at  4 
o'clock  in  the  afternoon,  and  were  attended  by  a  large  concourse  of  friends — 
hundreds  being  unable  to  obtain  admission  to  the  church. 

A  striking  feature  of  the  occasion  was  the  presence  of  so  large  a  number 
of  clergymen,  of  all  evangelical  denominations,  who  came  from  flir  and  near 
to  evince  their  respect  and  affection  for  the  memory  of  their  departed  brother 
in  the  ministry. 

The  services  were  conducted  by 

Rev.  Dr.  Spring,  Rev.  Dr.  Krebs, 

"      "    Plumer,  "      "    Dickinson, 


u        u 


Ferris,  "      "     Thompson. 


The  pall-bearers  were 

Rev.  Dr.  Vinton,  Rev.  Dr.  Dewitt, 

"      "     Shedd,  "      "     Adams, 

"      "     SoMERs,  "      "     Rice, 

"      "     Vermilye,  "      "     Campbell. 

Dr.  Krebs  delivered  the  address,  giving  a  sketch  of  the  life  and  character 

of  the  deceased ;  and  was  followed  by  Dr.  Plumer  in  a  few  touching  remarks. 

The  impressive  services,  the  sombre  drapery,  the  manifest  sorrow  of  those 


4  FUNERAL    OF    THE     LATE     DR.     PHILLIPS. 

who  were  taking  their  final  leave  of  the  remains  of  him  who  had  baptized 
their  infants,  married  their  yomig  men  and  maidens,  visited  their  sick,  and 
buried  their  dead ;  the  beautiful  rendering  of  the  hymns  (favorites  of  the 
deceased)  commencing 

"  There  is  a  fountain  filled  with  blood," 

and 

"  How  blest  the  righteous  when  he  dies ;  " 

the  tolling  of  the  bell  as  the  mournful  procession  passed  from  the  late  resi- 
dence of  the  deceased  to  the  church ;  presented  a  scene  so  truly  solemn  and 
affecting  as  will  scarcely  be  effaced  from  the  memory  of  any  of  its  observers. 

"  Thus  passed  forever  from  our  view 
The  noble,  faithful,  pious,  true  ; 
But  from  our  hearts  and  mem'ries  never 
Can  we  his  name  or  virtues  sever." 


ADDEESSES 


DELIVERED    AT    THE    FUNERAL    OF 


REV.  DR.  PHILLIPS, 


MARCH    23d,    1865, 


REV.   JOHN   M.   KREBS,   D.  D., 


REV.  WILLIAM   S.   PLUMER,   D.  D. 


ADDRESS    OF   REV.    DR.    KREBS. 


There  is  a  stricken  hcmseliold — there  is  a  stricken  church. 
There  are  many  hearts  bleeding  this  day — and  many  anxieties 
and  sympathies  awakened  by  the  blow  which  has  prostrated  a 
standard-bearer  on  the  high  places  of  the  field,  and  bereaved  so 
large  a  portion  of  the  church  of  God  in  this  city  and  this  land. 
And  I  too — may  I  not  say  it  ? — ^have  lost  a  friend,  a  counsellor, 
a  brother — one  in  whom  I  trusted  with  unbounded  confidence — 
whose  kind  and  almost  parental  regard  and  unobtrusive  con- 
descensions I  have  enjoyed  during  my  whole  ministry — in  ex- 
periences and  trials,  in  intimacies  and  confidences  in  eventful 
times,  and  in  personal  concerns  of  the  heart  and  soul. 

I  have  hardly  dared  to  trust  myself  to  speak  on  the  present 
occasion.  It  is  not  so  difficult  to  speak  in  eulogy  of  the  honored 
dead  :  nor  is  it  unmeet  that  I  should  fulfil  the  office  that  grows 
out  of  official  and  personal  relations, — while  as  the  last  of  his 
co-presbyters  -who  conversed  with  him  or  saw  him  living,  there 
is  some  fitness  in  my  compliance  with  the  request  which  for  such 
a  service  has  the  force  of  a  command. 


10  MEMORIALOF 

But  I  cannot  help  feeling — as  amid  other  and  similar  and 
recent  solemnities  —  which  have  crowded  upon  the  tenderest 
recollections  and  affections  of  these  churches  and  ministers — that 
God  Himself  is  speaking  to  us  with  the  voice  of  His  providence 
— and  of  His  rod — with  a  startling  and  almost  appalling  elo- 
quence— that  bids  us  "  be  still  and  know  that  He  is  God."  The 
occasion  itself  is  more  affecting  and  impressive  to  the  hearts  that 
gather  here  to  the  burial  of  a  man  of  God  than  any  words  of  man 
can  be.  When  that  majestic  form,  which  now  lies  prostrate  here, 
moved  among  you,  and  appeared  in  this  pulpit,  you  felt  the 
power  of  His  presence — the  force  of  all  his  excellent  natural 
endowments  of  person,  as  well  as  of  mind — that  seemed  to  make 
his  words  more  imposing,  while  these  endowments  were  really 
aided  and  employed,  as  they  were  sanctified  by  all  those  excel- 
lent gifts  and  graces,  which  the  Spirit  of  God  superinduced  upon 
them,  to  make  him  a  minister,  a  witness,  and  an  example  of  that 
grace  and  truth  which  are  in  Jesus :  and  you  felt  that  his  words 
were  weighty  and  povv^erful.  But  was  there  ever  aught  of  solemn 
admonition  that  spoke  from  those  eloquent  lips  like  this,  his  last 
and  most  impressive  sermon — these  mute  appeals  of  these  sombre 
draperies,  this  gathering  of  mourners,  these  bowed  hearts — and 
amid  all  and  above  all — this  eloquent  majesty  of  death  ?  'May 
it  not  be  said,  with  no  inappropriate  application,  that  "  he  being 
dead  yet  speaketh" — and  now  once  more,  most  solemnly  of  all,  to 


REV.     WILLIAM     W.     PHILLIPS,    D.D.  H 

bid  you  remember  the  word  wliicli  he  spake  while  he  was  yet 
with  you  ? 

The  rapid  changes  since  my  own  accession  to  the  minis- 
try in  this  city  have  removed  the  fathers  who  received  and 
inducted  me  when  I  came  among  them  in  the  dew  of  my 
youth.  The  most  of  those  venerable  men  are  dead.  In  the 
Presbytery  one  only  survives  in  the  pastoral  office ;  in  our  Pres- 
byterian churches  here,  only  two  /  and  in  all  the  denominations 
only  three.  Within  the  last  ten  months  the  Presbytery  has  lost 
from  these  conspicuous  places  six  of  its  members — -four  of  them 
among  the  most  eminent  and  of  prolonged  usefulness — men  of 
mark — men  revered — and  we  who  stand  here  are  admonished 
to-day  that  we  too  are  going  the  way  of  all  the  earth.  Well  may 
we  exclaim — "  The  fathers,  where  are  they  ?  and  the  p^o^jhets,  do 
they  live  forever  ?  " 

But  the  memory  of  their  ministrations  remains,  and  of  the 
oppositions  of  unbelief,  and  the  fruits  of  repentance  and  faith,  and 
the  word  of  God  whiph  liveth  and  abidetb  forever.  And  all  the 
effects  of  their  ministry  survive — both  in  them  to  whom  they 
were  the  savor  of  death  unto  death,  and  in  them  to  whom  they 
were  the  savor  of  life  unto  life.  But  they  are  gone — to  meet  with 
their  hearers  again  at  the  bar  of  God,  and  to  give  in  their  account 
— of  some  with  joy — of  others  with  grief — and  all  of  them  to 
test  the  truth  of  what  these   prophets   believed   and   preached. 


12  MEMORIALOF 

The  treasure  was  put  into  earthen  vessels — the  waters  of  life 
were  put  into  earthen  pitchers.  And  these  are  broken — although 
the  treasures  and  the  waters  were  not  lost.  But  the  season  is 
short — for  us — and  for  you  also  who  hear  us. 

If  this  truth  were  felt,  as  its  solemnity  and  impressiveness 
ought  to  be  felt — what  preachers  should  we  be — what  hearers 
would  you  be  !  What  an  influence  and  force  would  be  conveyed 
by  every  sermon !  What  scenes  of  spiritual  interest  would  our 
worshipping  assemblies  present !  What  pains  of  conviction — 
what  anxiety  to  be  saved — what  holy  travailing  of  the  new  birth 
— what  joy  and  peace  in  believing — what  thronging  crowds  in 
the  sanctuary — what  hopes  of  salvation — what  fitness  for  living, 
and  fitness  for  dying  too  —  what  comforts  and  consolations 
abounding  by  Christ  —  and  what  looking  for  and  hasting  unto 
the  coming  of  the  day  of  God — and  what  praises  and  services  of 
the  glory  of  our  God  and  of  His  Christ ! 

And  if  for  the  moment  we  weep  and  mourn,  because  His 
servants  do  not  continue  by  reason  of  death,  and  are  taken  away 
from  our  fond  hearts  and  longing  hopes  for  the  church  of  God 
and  her  wide  field  in  a  dying  world  wherein  her  prayer  and 
service  for  Christ  and  souls  are  to  be  employed — we  are  not  to 
forget  all  that  God  accomplished  by  them — nor  that  Jesus  Christ 
is  still  Head  over  all  things  for  the  church — and  that  He  will 
be  with    her  alway  to  the  end  of  the  world.     He  is  the  same 


REV.     WILLIAM    W.     P  H  I  L  L  I  P  S,    D.  D.  13 

yesterday,  to-day,  and  forever — His  glorious  person,  and  cove- 
nant, and  atoning  blood — His  power  and  love  and  faithfulness 
— His  compassion  and  care — His  mediation  and  intercession — 
His  promises  and  His  truth.  He  has  the  residue  of  the  Spirit 
— He  will  not  leave  you  comfortless — He  will  raise  up  laborers 
for  the  harvest — and  in  their  generations  He  shall  have  a  seed 
to  serve  Him — and  othei"  ministers  and  martyrdoms,  it  may  be, 
to  testify  to  the  ages  to  come  the  glorious  gospel  of  the  blessed 
God — to  comfort  His  people — and  to  build  up  His  church.  Zion 
is  engraved  on  the  palms  of  His  hands :  her  walls  continually 
rise  before  Him. 

But  it  becomes  the  occasion  to  attempt,  yet  with  no  particu- 
lar care  to  be  methodical,  some  humble  and  merely  suggestive  me- 
morial of  the  life  and  character  of  our  departed  friend  and  brother 
and  father.  We  are  commanded  to  remember  those  who  have 
had  the  rule  over  us,  who  have  spoken  to  us  the  word  of  God — 
and  to  follow  their  faith,  considering  the  end  of  their  conversation. 

William  Wirt  Phillips  was  born  in  Montgomery  County, 
in  this  state,  on  September  23d,  1796.  From  his  early  child- 
hood he  was  of  a  thouo-htful  and  reliiiious  turn  of  mind,  and  he 
grew  up  in  singular  purity  and  uprightness.  Often,  in  after 
years,  he  adverted,  with  pious  thankfulness,  to  the  goodness  of 
God  in  preserving  him  from    the   sins  of  youth.     Early  led   to 


14:  MEMORIALOF 

recognize  Christ  and  embrace  Him  as  his  Saviour,  he  confessed 
Him  before  men  in  claiming  union  witli  His  church,  shortly 
after  graduating  as  a  Bachelor  of  Arts  of  Union  College,  and 
while  he  was  yet  under  twenty  years  of  age.  Entering  the 
Theological  Seminary  of  the  Associate  Reformed  Church  in  this 
city,  under  the  care  of  the  late  Dr.  John  M.  Mason,  and  after 
ward  the  Theological  Seminary  of  the  Reformed  Dutcli  Church  at 
New  Brunswick,  he  was  contemporary  in  his  studies  under  that 
distinguished  teacher  and  preacher,  with  many  who  have  be- 
come eminent  ministers  of  the  gospel.  After  prosecuting  a  very 
full  course  of  study,  he  was,  in  April,  1818,  ordained  as  pastor 
of  the  church  then  in  Pearl  street,  but  now  merged  in  the  Central 
Church  in  Broome  street ;  and  in  that  church  he  continued  a 
most  acceptable  and  useful  ministry  for  about  eight  years,  when 
he  was  translated  to  the  First  Presbyterian  Church,  then  wor- 
shipping in  Wall  street :  and  therein,  and,  after  the  removal  of 
the  church  edifice  and  the  erection  of  this  church,  in  this  place, 
he  exercised  his  pastoral  office  for  thirty-nine  years — his  whole 
ministerial  life  occupying  a  period  of  forty-seven  years — until  now 
he  has  finished  his  course  with  joy,  and  the  ministry  which  he 
received  from  the  Lord  Jesus  to  testify  the  gospel  of  the  grace 
of  God.  And  ye  are  witnesses  how  holily  and  unblameably  he 
behaved  himself  among  you,  and  exhorted  and  comforted  and 
charged  every  one  of  you,  as  a  father  doth  his  children,  that  ye 


REV.     WILLIAM    W.     PHILLIPS,    D.D.  15 

would  walk  worthy  of  God  who  hath  called  you  unto  his  king- 
dom and  glory. 

While  as  a  pastor  he  devoted  himself  to  the  edification  of  his 
especial  charge,  he  was  called  to  the  performance  of  other  public 
trusts,  to  the  duties  of  which  he  attended  with  great  fidelity 
and  skill,  and  with  great  acceptance.  J^x  officio^  he  was,  by  the 
terms  of  their  respective  foundations,  a  trustee  of  the  Leake  and 
Watts  Orphan  Asylum  and  of  the  Sailor's  Snug  Harbor — posts 
requiring  no  little  time  and  labor.  He  was  also  a  trustee  of  the 
College  of  New  Jersey  (Nassau  Hall),  at  Princeton,  and  a  member 
of  the  Council  of  the  New  York  University ;  and  he  was  both 
a  trustee  and  a  director  of  the  Theological  Seminary  at  Princeton, 
and  President  of  the  latter  Board  :  and  always  in  his  place.  Be- 
sides being  repeatedly  elected  a  member  of  the  several  other 
Boards  of  the  Presbyterian  Church,  he  was,  from  its  organization 
in  1837,  the  chairman  of  the  executive  committee  of  the  Board 
of  Foreign  Missions,  and,  for  several  years  past.  President  of 
the  Board  also.  Every  week  found  him  in  his  phice  in  that 
committee,  wherein  he  made  himself  thoroughly  familiar  with 
its  operations,  the  condition  of  its  missions,  and  the  name,  char- 
acter, and  work  of  every  missionary ;  and  in  every  wa}^  he  showed 
himself  an  earnest  and  sagacious  friend  and  promoter  of  that 
great  cause.  He  was  frequently  a  member  of  the  General 
Assembly,  and   in    1835    wac   its   Moderator.       These   positions 


16  MEMORIAL     OF 

evinced  in  what  repute  he  was,  in  the  church  at  large  and  with 
his  brethren.  And  thus  was  laid  upon  him  in  a  measure  the  care 
of  all  the  churches,  involving  an  amount  of  service  of  which  few 
men  are  capable.  These  were  not  barren  honors,  but  severe 
labors.  Nor  was  this  service  any  detriment  to  his  parochial 
charge.  Neither  he  nor  his  people  regarded  it  with  churlish 
jealousy  or  narrow  and  selfish  regard  to  its  isolated  interests ; 
but  by  his  public  spirit,  which  was  shared  by  his  people,  was 
illustrated  the  duty  of  looking  not  upon  their  own  things,  but 
also  upon  the  things  of  others,  and  the  advantage  to  be  gained 
by  enlarged  views  and  all  the  reflex  influence  and  reciprocal 
benefit  which  a  pastor  and  man  of  public  spirit  confers  at  once 
upon  the  whole  church  and  upon  the  particular  field  fi'om 
whence  he  dates  his  enlarged  enterprise. 

The  degree  of  D.  D.  was  conferred  upon  him  by  Columbia 
College,  when  he  was  yet  under  thirty  years  of  age. 

None  would  shrink  more  than  he  from  the  eulogy  or  mention 
of  himself.  But  shall  we  not  bear  testimony  to  the  grace  of  God 
which  was  with  him  ? 

He  was  a  good  man,  full  of  the  Holy  Ghost  and  of  faith. 
He  walked  with  God  daily.  Eminently  a  man  of  prayer,  his 
household  knew  why  his  resort  in  the  early  morning  was  to  his 
study  ;  and  when,  under  the  pains  of  his  last  sickness,  he  stood 


.REV.     WILLIAM     W .     PHILLIPS,     D.  D.  17 

leaning  over  liis  study-desk,  or  sat  in  his  cLaii'  with  closed  eyes 
and  barely  moving  lij)s,  they  knew  that  he  was  communing  with 
God.  And  herein  lay  in  part  the  secret  of  that  remarkable 
ability,  copiousness,  and  unction  of  his  public  prayers  in  the 
sanctuary — so  full,  so  appropriate,  so  fervent,  that  one  of  another 
preference  said  that  if  all  ministers  prayed  like  him  there  would 
be  no  need  of  a  liturgy — and  that  might  be  said  of  him  which 
the  late  Dr.  James  W.  Alexander  once  remarked  to  me  concern- 
ing Dr.  Milledoler,  that  "  he  was  given  to  the  church  to  teach 
ministers  how  to  pray."  He  was  a  good  man.  Men  felt  it,  and 
"  how  awful  goodness  is ; "  as  one  said,  who  mingled  much 
with  public  men  and  great  men  in  political  circles,  that  he  was 
always  unusually  moved  with  "  a  certain  awe,"  when  he  was  in 
the  presence  and  company  of  this  true  man  of  God. 

For  the  past  two  years  he  was  more  evidently  ripening  for 
heaven.  The  finer  points  of  his  character  were  more  apparent : 
his  patience,  meekness,  tenderness,  love,  spirituality,  upward  affec- 
tion, the  characteristics  of  his  pure  and  lovely  life,  were  brought 
out  more  and  more. 

With  that  great  strong  form — so  firmly  knit,  and  framed  for 

endurance — he   was,  nevertheless,  the    subject    of    great    bodily 

suffering,  which  was   not  generally  known ;   but  he   complained 

not — nor  murmured,  nor  proclaimed  it   abroad ;  but  he  bore  it 

with  sustained  spirit — and  its  influence  was  observable  upon  him 
3 


18  MEMORIAL    OF 

as  it  helped  to  purify  his  character,  and  even  helped  him  in  his 
work.  Oblio^ed  to  write  standins; — unable  to  sit  down — he 
would  sometimes  say :  "  Oh,  if  my  people  knew  what  suffering 
it  costs  me  to  prepare  for  their  instruction,  they  would  surely 
appreciate  more  this  painful  labor  for  them,  and  make  a  better 
improvement  of  the  truth."  And  it  was  to  him  a  regret  that  hi^ 
infirmity  rendered  him  unable  to  visit  them  at  their  own  houses 
as  often  as  he  would.  So  excruciating  was  this  anguish  at  times, 
especially  toward  the  last,  that  after  a  severe  paroxysm,  he  said  : 
"I  thought  I  had  endured  all  that  poor  human  nature  could 
bear  :  but  God  has  shown  me  that  there  are  greater  extremes  : — 
and  I  am  a  wonder  to  myself,  to  suffer  as  I  do,  and  yet  live." 
And  yet,  with  all  this,  under  complicated  agony,  there  was  no 
impeachment  of  God — no  bitter  outcry.  "  It  was  all  right :  God 
had  a  good  purpose  in  it :   His  will  be  done." 

Thus  to  the  last,  so  meekly  bore  he  his  Master's  will.  As 
the  end  drew  nigh,  he  did  not  fail  to  apprehend  its  approach. 
Methodically  exact,  he  had  set  his  house  in  order,  in  his  temporal 
as  well  as  in  his  spiritual  concerns.  He  spoke  of  the  probable 
event — not  as  terminating  his  life,  but  as  closing  up  his  work. 
He  was  simply,  beautifully  calm.  He  knew  whom  he  had  be- 
lieved. His  mind,  unclouded  till  the  last  few  hours,  showed  its 
unfaltering  trust.  Without  speaking  of  himself,  his  conversation 
was  in  heaven,  and  implied  more  than  he  said.     When  told  of 


REV.     WILLIAM    W.     PHILLIPS,    D.D.  19 

a  certain  person  who  was  suffering  much  from  excessive  bodily 
pain,  and  was,  at  the  same  time,  oppressed  with  spiritual  doubts 
and  fears,  he  said :  "  I  pity  him,  to  have  to  bear  that  double 
burden — anguish  of  body  and  a  wounded  spirit  too,  troubled 
with  the  temptations  of  the  adversary  taking  advantage  of  his 
weakness."  When,  in  my  last  interview  with  him,  while  he  could 
still  converse,  I  spoke  with  a  grateful  remembrance  of  his  kind 
counsels  in  times  of  trouble,  and  especially  of  the  comfort  I  had 
derived  from  his  last  sermon  in  my  hearing, — as  if  to  ward  off 
any  seeming  tribute  to  himself,  he  replied :  "  Give  God  the 
praise :  it  is  He  who  makes  use  of  us ;  and  all  our  fitness  to  aid 
one  another  is  from  Him." 

He  showed  piety  at  home.  His  household  fondly  revered 
and  loved  him.  To  his  children  he  was  more  like  their  elder 
brother.  He  made  them  his  companions, — .talked  with  them  and 
taught  them,  while  he  counselled  with  them,  and  shared  their 
studies  and  plans  and  recreations,  and  governed  them  with  the 
power  of  his  loving  sympathies. 

He  was  very  much  attached  to  his  own  people,  and  they  in 
turn  to  him.  They  were  kept  together  against  the  adverse 
influences  of  changing  population  by  the  force  of  their  love  for 
his  person  and  ministry.  To  the  poor  he  relieved — the  children 
he  instructed — the  afilicted  he  comforted,  he  was  greatly  endeared. 
His  people  had  all  confidence  in  his  integrity  and  sound  judgment, 


20  MEMORIALOF 

and  they  cooperated  with  him  without  question  or  reluctance 
in  the  plans  he  formed  for  developing  the  energies  of  the  church 
and  promoting  its  prosperity  and  usefulness,  and  the  widest  in- 
fluence of  his  ministry  among  them  ;  so  that  they  were  singularly 
accordant,  peaceful,  and  happy  in  each  other.  His  church  was 
indeed  his  family.  There  he  spoke  with  all  freedom  and  sim- 
plicity ;  adverse  to  the  advertisement  of  his  sermons,  or  reports 
of  them,  because  he  would  not  have  that  free,  familiar  discourse 
as  with  his  own  household  impaired  by  the  thought  of  the  press, 
or  by  mingling  with  it  an  ambitious  style  and  sensational  themes, 
or  by  truckling  for  celebrity  and  the  applause  of  the  platform. 
In  early  life,  he  had,  according  to  the  custom  of  some,  kept  a 
journal — which,  however,  he  destroyed,  because  he  feared  the 
record  which  might  fall  under  the  eyes  of  others,  should  ex- 
tenuate or  exaggerate  the  truth  of  his  own  experiences  for 
posthumous  admiration. 

An  humble-minded,  modest  man  was  he — simple  and  sincere 
and  confiding,  cheerful  of  temper,  but  grave  and  dignified.  His 
retiring,  unobtrusive  disposition  caused  some  persons  to  charge 
him  with  being  cold,  reserved,  unsocial,  and  proud.  They  knew 
him  not.  None  cherished  profounder  views  of  his  own  unworthi- 
ness  and  obligations  to  grace :  none  more  tender,  afiectionate, 
and  sympathizing.  He  was  ever  ready  to  help  his  brethren, — 
to   take   pains    to  help  them,  never   excusing  himself  from  the 


REV.     WILLIAM    W.     PHILLIPS,    D.D.  21 

service.  Ever  ready  too  to  welcome  them,  to  counsel  them,  to 
comfort  them,  to  judge  their  weaknesses  charitably,  and  pity 
them ;  but  never  with  proud  and  oppressive  condescensions.  A 
friend  more  in  unmistakable  acts  than  professions,  he  was  always 
real  and  reliable ;  a  lover  of  good  men ;  and  given  to  hospi- 
tality. 

With  his  strong  mind  and  cultivation,  he  might  at  all  times, 
without  arrogance,  have  assumed  commanding  position  and 
leadership  in  the  church  and  be  forward  in  utterance.  But  his 
voice  was  not  heard  in  the  streets  and  in  the  chief  places  of 
concourse.  He  abstained  from  clamorous  pretension.  He  waited 
till  call  and  occasion  drew  him  to  conspicuous  post  and  service 
beyond  the  sphere  of  daily  labor  where  he  dwelt  among  his 
own  people.  He  courted  not  association  with  the  great,  nor 
sought  worldly  preeminence.  He  disdained  sycophantic  ob- 
sequiousness to  win  the  smiles  of  the  wealthy  and  powerful.  He 
could  not  crook  the  pregnant  hinges  of  the  knee  that  thrift 
might  follow  fawning.  He  held  no  man's  person  in  admiration 
because  of  advantage.  His  prayer  was  to  be  kept  from  the  fear 
of  man  that  bringeth  a  snare.  And  thus  was  he  independent  in 
his  judgments,  firm  to  his  convictions,  undaunted  for  truth  and 
principle ;  and  no  mere  human  expediences  could  sway  oi 
swerve  him. 

In  the  courts  of  the  church  he  spoke  but  seldom;    but  al 


22  MEMORIALOF 

ways  wifcli  autliority — so  wisely  and  honestly  that  all  listened 
and  trusted  liis  clear,  sound  speech  and  discriminating  judg, 
ment. 

So  honest  and  incorruptible  was  he — so  prudent,  consistent, 
and  Christ-like — that  none  distrusted  his  sincerity — and  all  gave 
him  reverence  and  respect.  A  living  epistle  of  the  truth,  he 
rendered  the  religion  he  taught  by  his  example,  amiable,  and,  if 
I  may  use  the  expression,  respectable  in  the  eyes  of  the  world ; 
and  with  a  power  beyond  the  suffrages  or  testimonies  of  men, 
he  repelled  and  withered  whatsoever  scheme  or  disposition  bold 
bad  men  might  have  manifested  at  any  time  to  impeach  his 
integrity  or  calumniate  his  gospel. 

He  was  faithful  to  the  gospel.  He  believed  it.  He  loved  it. 
His  soul's  trust  was  in  the  cross  of  Christ.  That  cross  was  the 
theme  of  his  preaching.  Unmindful  of  the  sneers  and  clamors 
which  would  exclude  the  preaching  of  the  gospel  as  .obsolete,  and 
substitute  for  it  their  own  devices,  he  felt  that  the  cross  was 
Christianity — that  Christ  alone  was  the  wisdom  and  power  of 
God  unto  salvation — that  to  save  meti's  souls  was  first  in  im- 
portance, and  that  to  heal  them  was  to  abate  all  the  ills  of  life ; 
that  all  moral  and  sanitary  reform  must  be  the  fruit  of  evangelical 
regeneration, — and  to  make  the  tree  good  would  insure  that  the 
fruit  should  be  good  also.  And  he  so  preached,  and  with  such 
a  purpose,  that  if  perchance  there  should  be  among  his  hearers 


REV.     WILLIAM     W.     PHILLIPS,     D.   D.  23 

one  soul  that  needed  to  be  taught  the  way  of  salvation,  he  should 
not  go  away  untaught,  lest  perchance  he  might  never  hear  it 
again.  It  was  a  maxim  of  his  that  "  prayers  and  sermons  are 
not  intended  for  admiration,  but  to  edify ; "  and  if  ministers 
would  but  keep  themselves  out  of  view,  and  their  reputation  for 
learning  and  eloquence,  and  simply  hold  up  Christ  and  His  cross, 
how  much  more  efifectively  they  would  preach  the  gospel  and 
save  men. 

He  was  no  showy  man — in  the  pulpit,  or  out  of  it.  He  was 
something  better.  Without  pretension — without  ambition  of 
style — solid — clear — instructive — scriptural — he  was  mighty  in 
the  Scriptures — and  his  eloquence  was  that  which  the  word 
of  God  inspired.  It  was  said  of  him  that  his  lectures  were  his 
best  preaching — so  thoroughly  were  they  imbued  with  the  Bible 
— so  well  expounded — yet  so  free  and  unrestrained  by  scholastic 
rule,  or  aim  at  popularity.  In  a  day  of  glare  and  tinsel  and 
self-seeking — all  honor  to  the  man  who  was  true  to  the  glorious 
gospel — who  never  preached  himself — and  never  pandered  to  itch- 
ing ears,  and  ill-informed,  conceited  minds  and  unsanctified  hearts. 

And  thus  was  he  faithful  unto  death.  And  now  he  comes 
to  his  grave,  as  a  shock  of  corn  fully  ripe  that  cometh  in  his 
season :  not  worn  out,  not  imbecile ;  but  in  the  maturity  of  his 
powers,  his  eye  hardly  dimmed  or  his  natural  force  abated ;  still 
vigorous,  untiring,  bravely  laboring  on  to   the  last,  even  amid 


24:  MEMORIALOP 

trials  and  pains.  Wliile  lie  laid  upon  his  death-bed,  panting 
and  gasping,  you  might  look  through  the  open  door  into  his 
study,  where  on  his  desk  was  still  lying  the  unfinished  sermon 
arrested  by  the  accession  of  those  complicated  diseases  which 
paralyzed  his  strength  and  interrupted  all  his  work  on  earth 
forever.  He  had  prayed  that  he  might  not  outlive  his  useful- 
ness, that  he  might  not  be  laid  aside  to  become  a  burden.  In 
this  he  was  exempted — as  he  was  exempted  from  all  the  bitter- 
ness of  death. 

But  precious  in  the  sight  of  the  Lord  is  the  death  of  his 
saints.  He  guards  their  lives :  He  watches  over  their  end 
Precious  in  His  sight  is  the  death  of  His  faithful  ministers.  He 
formed  their  character,  and  prepared  them  for  their  reward. 
They  had  fought  the  good  fight ;  they  had  finished  their  course ; 
they  had  kept  the  faith  ;  and  the  crown  of  righteousness  awaits 
them.  Let  us  not  weep  and  break  our  hearts  because  they  have 
entered  into  rest.  Let  us  be  grateful  for  their  godly  lives,  and 
pious  service,  and  be  followers  of  them  who  through  faith  and 
patience  have  inherited  the  promises.  Their  death  is  a  legacy 
to  the  church  and  to  survivors :  it  illustrates  God's  faithfulness 
to  them  to  the  end,  in  their  fidelity  to  Him,  and  in  their  de- 
parture in  peace  and  blessed  assurance  of  everlasting  life. 

Moses  is  commanded  to  go  up  to  Nebo  and  die,  just  on 
the  threshold  of  the  promised  land  into  which  he  was  leading 


REV.     WILLIAM     W.     PHILLIPS,     D.    D.  25 

Israel.  It  seemed  hard.  But  he  is  active ;  he  is  submissive ; 
he  is  willing ;  and  he  is  favored  too.  God  kisses  away  his  breath 
— hides  his  servant  from  the  strife  of  tongues — hides  his  sep- 
ulchre,— but  his  memory  is  blessed  forever. 

How  shall  it  be  with  us  ?  Such  a  command  will  soon  fall  on 
our  hearts.  Do  we  keep  the  fact  in  view  ?  Are  we  ready  for  the 
summons  ?      Shall  it  find  us  still  doing  the  Master's  will  ? 

And  all  of  us,  beloved,  shall  have  to  take  this  step.  WiU 
it  be  by  the  side  of  your  faithful  ministers,  to  be  their  crown 
and  rejoicing  in  that  day  ?  Ah  !  if  it  be  not  so  ?  Have  the 
life  and  labor  of  your  pastors  hitherto  been  lost  upon  you? 
See  to  it,  that  you  lose  not  theii*  death  also. 


REMARKS   OF   REV.   DR.   PLUMER. 


"  And  devout  men  carried  Stephen  to  liis  burial,  and  made 
great  lamentation  over  him."  Blessed  be  God,  true  religion 
chills  none  of  the  kindly  feelings  of  our  hearts.  Stoicism  receives 
no  countenance  from  Christianity.  When  we  are  afflicted,  God 
allows  that  we  may  weep.  "  Jesus  wept "  at  the  grave  of  his 
friend  Lazarus,  and  we  may  weep  at  the  graves  of  our  friends  too. 
The  enlightened  teacher  of  Christ's  religion  is  too  well  taught  to 
reprove  the  mourner.  True,  indeed,  when  good  men  die,  we  do 
not  weep  for  the  loss  they  have  sustained,  but  for  ourselves. 
And  yet  we  weep. 

The  general  outlines  of  the  character  of  the  deceased  have 
been  well  delineated  by  the  brother  who  preceded  me.  Repe- 
tition would  be  out  of  place.  But  a  few  additional  thoughts  may 
not  be  untimely. 

When  the  late  Dr.  Baxter  died,  his  students  pointed  to  the 
pulpit,  and  said  :  "  There  Baxter  wept."  When  Dr.  Payson  was 
gone,  one  of  his  people  took  a  stranger  into  his  church,  and, 
pointing  to  his  pulpit,  said ;    "  There  Payson  prayed."     Perhaps 


30  MEMORIAL    OF 

the  deepest  impression  made  by  tlie  public  ministrations  of 
Dr.  Phillips  was  through  his  prayers.  Here  he  stood  and  prayed. 
He  did  not  pray  at  the  people,  nor  to  the  people ;  but  for  the 
people,  and  to  the  Almighty.  He  was  indeed  mouth  and  wisdom 
to  the  penitent,  the  broken-hearted,  and  the  child  of  sorrow. 
He  came  not  to  the  throne  of  grace  to  display  his  gifts,  nor  to 
harangue  the  people  through  the  fonn  of  devotion ;  but  to  adore 
the  Sovereign  of  all  worlds,  to  make  prostrate  obeisance  of  all  his 
faculties  before  the  God  of  heaven,  to  confess  and  bewail  sin,  and 
to  plead — oh,  with  what  earnestness  and  tenderness  ! — for  the  life 
of  the  souls  of  men. 

There  is  probably  not  living  a  man  who  ever  suspected  Dr. 
Phillips  of  an  envious  disposition.  If  the  whole  world  would 
act  acccording  to  the  tenor  of  his  life,  we  should  begin  to  think 
that  the  Scrijiture  saith  in  vain  :  "  The  spirit  that  is  in  us  listeth 
to  envy."  His  heart  never  sickened  at  the  growing  reputation 
or  usefulness  of  a  brother  in  the  ministry,  or  of  any  one  else. 
Great,  humble  man !  He  rejoiced  in  the  blessing  that  God 
gi-anted  to  the  persons  and  the  labors  of  his  fellow  servants. 
Perhaps  a  more  unselfish  man  did  not  live  in  this  world.  Truly 
he  did  not  live  unto  himself.  How  many  here  to-day,  not  resi- 
dent in  this  city,  have  in  years  gone  by  been  mightily  cheered 
in  their  labors  for  Christ's  cause  by  the  hearty  good  will  and 
efficient  aid  of  our  dear  departed  brother  ! 


REV.     WILLIAM    W.    PHILLIPS,    D.D.  31 

As  a  matter  of  course,  Dr.  PLillips  was  remarkaWy  free  from 
unkindness  of  heart.  Nor  was  his  goodness  merely  negative. 
His  heart  overflowed  with  kindness.  For  more  than  a  third  of 
a  century  I  have  known  him  well.  Under  no  circumstances  have 
I  ever  heard  from  his  lips  an  uncharitable  word.  Oftentimes 
has  he  spoken  with  respect  and  affection  of  those  whose  deport- 
ment had  given  him  great  pain.  Well  did  he  understand  the 
exhortation  of  the  aj)ostle  when  he  said :  "  Mind  not  high 
things ;  but  condescend  to  men  of  low  estate."  To  the  poor, 
pious  boy,  aiming  at  the  ministry,  or  to  the  young,  timid  proba- 
tioner for  the  ministry,  he  was  as  affable  and  as  kind  as  to  the 
aged  servant  of  Christ  of  high  reputation.  He  wept  and  prayed 
and  as  tenderly  sympathized  with  the  poor  widow  and  her 
fatherless  children,  as  he  would  with  the  most  honored  matron  in 
the  land. 

The  secrets  of  Dr.  Phillips's  usefulness  and  high  character 
were  found  in  his  faith  and  love.  He  believed  God.  He  be- 
lieved in  God,  and  in  Jesus  Christ  His  Son,  and  in  the  blessed 
Holy  Spirit.  He  endured  as  seeing  Him  who  is  invisible.  He 
walked  by  faith  and  not  by  sight.  He  was  habitually  and  pro- 
foundly assured  that  every  word  of  God  was  pure  and  true,  and 
would  be  infallibly  accomplished.  And  his  faith  worked  by  love. 
He  greatly  desired  that  others  should  know  the  mystery  of  God 
and  of  Christ,  by  which  his  heart  was  supported.     Never  was 


32  MEMORIALOF 

he  so  eloquent  as  when  beseeching  men  to  accept  the  salvation 
of  the  gospel,  or  beseeching  Christians  to  a  large  liberality  and 
an  enlightened  zeal  in  sending  the  gospel  to  the  perishing  heathen. 
If  he  had  had  even  serious  faults  of  character,  all  but  the  malig- 
nant would  agree  that  the  grave  should  bury  them  forever.  But 
it  is  pleasant  to  be  persuaded  that  there  is  probably  no  good 
man  living,  who  on  hearing  of  his  death,  felt  that  he  had  any 
thing  to  erase  from  the  tablet  of  his  memory,  in  the  way  of 
forgiving  or  forgetting  a  wrong  received  from  Dr.  Phillips. 

Under  these  sad,  yet  consoling  circumstances,  we  come  here 
to-day  to  commit  to  the  tomb  the  mortal  remains  of  om*  beloved 
friend.  Farewell,  thou  noble,  loving,  generous,  tender-hearted 
man  !  Farewell,  till  we  meet  around  the  throne  of  God  and  of 
the  Lamb.  Christians  never  part  to  meet  no  more.  Nor  do  any 
of  them  leave  the  world  but  in  answer  to  the  intercession  of  our 
great  High  Priest,  one  of  whose  authoritative  petitions  is : 
"  Father,  I  will  that  they  also  whom  thou  hast  given  me  be  with 
me :  that  they  may  behold  my  glory,  which  thou  hast  given  me ; 
for  thou  lovedst  me  before  the  foundation  of  the  world." 


DISCOURSE 


ADDUESSED    TO    THE 


COMMEMORATIVE    OF   THEIR    LATE    PASTOR 


REV.  WILLIAM  WIRT  PHILLIPS,  D.  D., 


SABBATH  MORNING,  APRIL  SOTff,    1865. 


REV.    RICHARD  W.   DICKINSON,   D.  D. 


FUNERAL   DISCOURSE 


REVELATION  xlv,  13. 


And  I  heard  a  voice  from  heaven  saying  unto  me,  Write,  Blessed  are  the  dead  which  die 
in  the  Lord  from  henceforth  :  Yea,  saith  the  Spirit,  that  they  may  rest  from  their  labours ; 
and  their  works  do  follow  them. 


This  passage  of  Holy  Writ,  though  so  familiar  to  our  ear,  is 
no  less  impressive  than  appropriate  to  this  occasion.  Emanating 
from  no  fallible  mind,  and  recorded  on  authority,  it  demands 
credence.  Comprehensive  in  its  relations,  as  well  as  clear  in 
its  import,  even  aside  from  the  context,  it  suggests  the  weightiest 
thoughts.     Sublime  in  its  disclosures  it  thrills  the  soul. 

There  are  voices  from  the  earth  respecting  the  dead ;  but  they 
are  vague,  confused,  often  contradictory ;  never  satisfying  the 
yearnings  of  our  spiritual  nature  after  light  and  life.  Reason 
has  been  heard  to  speak ;   but  however  she  may  have  ventured 


36  MEMORIAL    OF 

a  presumption  on  the  capacities  of  the  soul,  and  the  signs  of 
material  things,  she  has  never  attained  to  the  high  conclusion 
that  man  will  live  hereafter :  much  less  that  in  another  state  of 
existence,  he  will  be  eternally  happy.  Endued  with  sublimated 
energy,  or  inflated  by  the  achievements  of  science,  she  has 
soared  even  to  empyrean  heights;  but  smitten  with  blindness, 
or  wearied  in  her  search,  she  has  brought  "  us  back  the  tidings 
of  despair." 

As  if  conscious  of  the  futility  of  all  the  unaided  speculations 
of  the  human  mind,  of  late  years,  mediums  of  communication 
with  the  departed  have  been  introduced  by  men  affecting  a 
profounder  insight  of  the  nature  of  things  ;  but  though  a  prurient 
curiosity  may  be  attracted  by  their  mystic  rites,  and  the  un- 
thinking may  wonder,  the  phenomena  of  spiritism  serve  only  to 
prove  how  the  noblest  ideas  may  be  caricatured,  and  the  ten- 
derest  sentiments  of  our  nature  abused  and  trifled  with. 

Turn  we  then  to  the  grave  :  ah,  that  cannot  speak.  Often 
has  man  stood  knocking,  weeping  at  the  door  of  the  sepulchre ; 
but  there  was  no  voice,  nor  any  that  answered.  All  is  silence 
audible  around  its  portals;  and  within,  all  is  darkness  visible 
As  we  have  hung  in  anguish  over  the  corpse  of  some  dear  friend 
with  whom  we  had  been  wont  to  exchange  thought  in  rela- 
tion  to   the    nature   and   issues   of   death,   how  often    have    we 


REV.     WILLIAM    W.     PHILLIPS,     D.D.  37 

detected  in  our  consciousness  the  vain  wish  that  those  dead  lips 
might  open  for  but  an  instant,  if  only  to  tell  us  that  the  spirit 
lives  !  Oh  !  could  the  sheeted  dead,  through  whatever  medium, 
only  whisper  to  us  the  secrets  of  their  dark  abode  !  But  from 
the  wide-spread  realms  of  death,  the  gnawing  of  the  earthworm 
is  the  only  sound  that  has  fallen  on  the  listening  ear.  Amid 
the  untold  myriads  that  have  been  driven  from  the  earth 
before  the  breath  of  the  destroying  angel  not  one  within  the 
wide  domain  of  nature  has  by  any  means  made  known  to  us  his 
destiny. 

The  voice  of  revelation  alone  has  spoken  audibly ;  and  its 
accents  are  no  less  clear  and  certain  than  authoritative  and  final. 

"  I  heard  a  voice  from  Heaven,  saying  unto  me  :  "  It  is  indeed 
a  man  who  here  speaks ;  but  no  man  b^efore  the  Apostle  John 
ever  presumed  to  affirm  on  the  ground  of  a  special  revelation  to 
himself  as  to  the  final  state  of  the  dead.  Neither  Plato,  nor 
Socrates,  whatever  might  have  been  their  views,  ever  dreamed 
of  authenticating  their  conjectures  by  a  reference  to  heaven's 
will.  Fondly  as  they  cherished  virtue,  strenuously  as  they  insisted 
on  the  formation  of  virtuous  habits  in  order  to  the  reunion  of 
the  soul  with  Deity,  there  was  always  the  doubt  implied,  if  not 
expressed — whether  the  soul  would  outlive  the  body.  Even  the 
admirable  apostrophe  of  Tacitus  to  the  spirit   of  Agricola,  than 


38  MEMORIALOF 

whicli  nothing  can  be  found  amid  the  ethical  remains  of  antiquity 
more  conclusive  as  to  the  degree  of  light  which  the  wisest  of  the 
old  heathen  enjoyed,  begins  with  a  disheartening  hypothesis.* 

Say  not  the  Apostle  labored  under  an  hallucination — the 
not  unfrequent  result  of  too  long  restricted  thought  on  any 
subject ;  or  that  he  might  have  mistaken  the  utterances  of  his 
own  enthusiastic  imaginings  for  a  voice  from  heaven ;  yea,  that 
confident  as  he  might  have  been,  there  is  no  reason  why  we 
should  suspend  our  faith  on  his  affirmation — be  it  ever  so 
positive. 

He  was  one  of  those  chosen  Apostles  whom  God  had  in- 
spired to  record  his  will;  and  this  appears  from  the  doctrines 
which  he,  as  well  as  they,  preached ;  fi'om  the  principles  which 
they  alike  exemplified ;  and  from  the  miracles  which  they 
wrought — all  in  the  name  of  the  Crucified  One  ;  to  the  miracu- 
lous facts  of  whose  history  they  all  bore  consistent  testimony ; 
and  for  whose  sake  they  counted  not  their  lives  dear  unto 
themselves. 

As  the  prophets  of  old  were  gifted  with  a  prescience  of  future 
events,  so  John  the  Apostle,  endowed  with  "  the  vision  and  the 

*  If  m  another  world  there  is  a  pious  mansion  for  the  blessed  ;  if,  as  the  wisest  men 
have  thought,  the  soul  is  not  extinguished  with  the  body,  may  you  enjoy  a  state  of 
eternal  felicity." — Life  of  Agricola,  sec.  xlvi. 


REV.     WILLIAM     W.     PHILLIPS,     D.D.  39 

faculty  divine,"  discerned  scenes  in  heaven.  As  God  took  Enoch, 
"  for  lie  was  not ;  "  as  Elijah  was  taken  to  heaven  in  a  chariot  of 
fire  ;  as  Paul  was  caught  up  into  the  third  heavens,  and  "  heard 
unutterable  words,"  so  John  was  made  to  hear  a  voice  from 
heaven  ;   and  the  voice  said — Write  : 

Blessed  are  the  dead  that  die  in  the  Lord. 

How  suitable  this  closing  announcement  from  heaven  by  the 
lips  of  the  oldest  and  only  surviving  apostle.  Without  this, 
I  had  almost  said,  the  Bible  were  deficient  in  its  essential  com- 
munications. 

What  moi'e  desirable  for  us  to  know — we  who  dwell  in  a 
vale  of  tears ;  and  are  naturally  in  bondage  to  the  fear  of  death, 
than  that  there  is  a  world  of  bliss  beyond  the  grave.  Why,  for 
this  knowledge,  "  the  whole  creation  has  groaned  and  travailed 
in  pain  together  until  now." 

Sin  brought  death  into  the  world.  But  in  the  councils  of 
eternity,  a  purpose  was  formed,  a  plan  devised  even  by  Him 
aojainst  whom  man  had  sinned,  to  divest  death  of  its  stino;  and 
the  grave  of  its  anticipated  victory.  Looking  back  over  the 
inspired  records  —  though  the  whole  plain  is  darkened  by 
shadows,  we  discern  as  on  distant  mountain  tops,  the  glimpses 
of  immortal  light.  Amid  a  succession  of  typical  institutions  and 
events  we  discern  the  preparative  arrangements  for  the  coming 


40  MEMORIALOF 

of  Messias.  We  behold  Him  to  wliom  every  Mosaical  rite,  and 
every  prophetic  song  referred — as  the  light  of  the  world  and  the 
hope  of  immortality,  at  last  appearing  in  "the  form  of  a  servant ;  " 
and  after  a  life  of  toil,  privation,  and  suffering,  submitting  to 
the  stroke  of  death  but  to  rise  victorious — conqueror  forever  over 
death  and  hell.  We  see  him  tendering  His  overtures  of  pardon 
and  peace  to  a  lost  world  ;  and  hear  Him  declaring  with  all  that 
authority  which  became  the  Son  of  God :  "  He  that  believeth  on 
Me,  though  he  were  dead,  yet  shall  he  live."  And  now  after  all 
essential  truth  to  man's  salvation  has  been  recorded  ;  now  as  the 
canon  of  revelation  is  about  to  be  completed,  John,  in  the  closing 
stage  of  his  apostleship,  hears  a  voice  from  heaven,  saying  unto 
him  :  "  Write,  Blessed  are  the  dead  that  die  in  the  Lord  from 
henceforth." 

As  if  it  were  not  enough  to  tell  us  of  "  the  Way,  the  Truth, 
and  the  Life,"  God  would  afford  us  proof  conclusive  that  the 
believers  in  Christ  never  die.  As  if  it  were  not  enough  that 
Paul  himself,  though  the  chiefest  Apostle  of  the  Lord  should  be 
commissioned  by  the  word  of  the  Lord  to  say — "  I  would  not 
have  you  ignorant,  brethren,  concerning  them  that  are  asleep, 
that  ye  sorrow  not  as  others  who  have  no  hope  ;  for  if  ye  believe 
that  Jesus  died  and  rose  again,  even  so  they  also  that  sleep  in 
Jesus  will   God    bring  with    him : "    God   expressly   employs    a 


REV.     WILLIAM     W.     PHILLIPS,    D.D.  41 

servant  to  make  a  record  to  tliis  effect :  "  Blessed  are  tlie  dead  tliat 
die  in  the  Lord."  They  did  not  believe  in  one  whom  I  had  not 
sent :  they  did  not  entrust  their  souls  to  a  mere  man,  nor  to  any 
creature  :  they  did  not  give  up  all,  and  labor  and  toil  for  Christ 
in  vain — No ;   "  Blessed  are  the  dead  that  die  in  the  Lord." 

Write  it  then,  that  the  world  may  know  that  the  gospel 
affords  the  only  stable  ground  of  hope  for  sinful  man.  Write  it, 
that  the  end  of  the  gospel  revelation  may  not  be  defeated ;  that 
so  glorious  a  truth  may  not  be  left  to  be  perverted,  and  ultimately 
denied  through  vain  tradition.  Write  it,  that  believers  may  be 
incited  to  "be  steadfast,  uumovable,  always  abounding  in  the 
work  of  the  Lord."  Write  it,  that  unbelievers  may  know  what 
has  become  of  those  who  lived  and  died  in  Christ.  Write  it  for 
the  comfort  and  consolation  of  your  guilty,  polluted,  weeping 
dying  world. 

Had  the  heathen  worthies  only  heard  this  voice  from  heaven, 
how  many  days  of  wasting  study  and  nights  of  anxious  thought 
had  they  been  spared  !  how  had  their  writings  gleamed  with  the 
light  of  truth — their  dying  hours  been  cheered  by  the  hope  of 
life  eternal !  Could  but  the  heathen  of  our  own  times  be  made 
to  hear  this  voice,  how  might  countless  precious  souls  be  rescued 
from  the  fangs  of  demon  gods  ! 

O  tidings  of  great  joy !      Be  of  good  cheer,  dying  mortals ! 

6 


42  MEMORIALOF 

That  tliere  is  a  blessed  future  stretching  out  in  endless  expanse 
and  duration  beyond  the  grave,  is  as  clear  and  certain  as  that 
"  man's  chief  end  is  to  glorify  God  and  enjoy  Him  forever :  "  a 
future  state  of  exemption  from  all  evils,  and  the  enjoyment  of  all 
good :  a  place  as  well  as  a  state  where  all  our  faculties  will  be 
exalted,  refined,  and  energized  in  adaptation  to  its  spiritual 
nature,  and  holy  ends. 

But  why  seek  ye  the  living  among  the  dead  ?  Why  go  to 
nature  when  the  God  of  natui'e  has  put  into  our  hand  the  glass 
of  his  Word  ?  Look — that  is  no  mirage — no  cloud-land  :  it  is 
all  glorious  reality — such  as  was  never  seen 

"  By  waking  sense  nor  by  the  dreaming  soul." 

'Tis  the  heaven  of  the  Bible — where  God  is  ;  where  the  winged 
seraphs  are  ;  where  the  spirits  of  just  men  made  perfect  are — all 
before  that  golden  altar. 

Away  with  the  darkly  skeptical  suggestions  of  an  evil  heart. 
If  to  the  eye  of  unassisted  reason  clouds  and  darkness  rest  upon 
the  end  of  man ;  to  the  eye  of  faith  "  day  dawns  on  the  night 
of  the  grave."  If  nature  shudders  in  view  of  the  silence,  the 
corruption,  the  oblivion  of  the  grave.  Faith  hears  a  voice  issuing 
from  heaven :  "  Fear  not  to  go  down  into  the  grave ;  I  will  go 
down  with  you  and  will  bring  you  up  again."     "In  my  Father's 


REV      WILLIAM     W.     PHILLIPS,    D.D.  43 

house  are  many  mansions :  if  it  were  not  so  I  would  Lave  told 
you ;  I  go  to  prepare  a  place  for  you.  And  if  I  go  away,  I  will 
come  again,  and  take  you  unto  myself,  that  where  I  am,  there 
ye  may  be  also."  "  I  am  the  resurrection  and  the  life."  Yea,  saith 
the  Spirit,  "  blessed  are  the  dead  that  die  i)i  the  LordP 

Divested  of  the  encumbrances  of  fallen  humanity — purified 
from  sin — ennobled  in  their  powers,  they  have  entered  "  on  the 
riches  of  the  inheritance  of  the  saints  in  lis-ht."  Hark  !  w^hat 
strains  are  those  that  break  upon  the  ear  of  listening  faith  ? 
Loud  are  they  as  the  sound  of  many  waters ;  symphonious  as 
the  music  of  the  spheres.  'Tis  the  song  of  the  blessed  :  Alleluia  / 
salvation  and  glory  and  honor  and  i}ower  unto  our  God  that 
sitteth  upon  the  throne^  and  unto  the  Lamh. 

Their  blessedness  is,  in  not  a  few  instances,  even  anticipated 
by  the  dying  believer.  How  willing  is  he  to  leave  a  world  to 
which  so  many  cling  as  their  only  portion ;  how  willing  to 
surrender  his  weeping  friends  into  the  hands  of  his  covenant- 
keeping  Grod.  How  precious  is  Jesus  to  his  soul.  What  serenity 
of  trust  pervades  his  parting  spirit ! 

"  Is  that  a  death-bed  where  the  Christian  lies ; 
No,  'tis  not  his — 'Tis  death  itself  there  dies." 

Call  you  this  delusion  ?  If  so,  it  is  more  blessed  than  any  of 
earth's  realities.     When  I  think  of  the  bliss  which  some  believers 


44  MEMORIALOF 

tave  felt  while  dying,  I  cannot  envy  the  happiness  of  the  most 
prospered  worldling.  Borne  on  the  pinions  of  faith,  as  I  have 
winged  my  way  to  the  mansions  of  the  blessed,  earth  has 
dwindled  to  a  point — the  world's  brightest  scenes  have  been 
covered  as  with  the  pall  of  darkness. 

O  the  triumj)hs  of  faith  in  the  dying  hour  of  many,  many  a 
follower  of  the  Lamb !  Well  and  truly  has  it  been  said,  that 
could  we  gather  unto  one  view  all  the  declarations  of  faith  in 
Jesus,  all  the  gratulations  of  conscience,  all  the  adoring  addresses 
to  the  Father  of  lights,  all  the  admonitions  and  benedictions  to 
weeping  Mends,  and  all  the  beams  of  opening  glory  that  have 
irradiated  the  dying  features  of  believers,  our  souls  would  burn 
with  the  sentiment  which  made  the  wicked  Baalim  devout  for  a 
moment :  "  Let  me  die  the  death  of  the  righteous,  and  let  my  last 
end  be  like  his  !  " 

But,  mark  you,  dear  hearers,  that  blessed  future  is  in  reserve 
only  for  those  who  die  in  the  Lord. 

If  there  be  a  moral  government,  and  moral  distinctions  are 
not  arbitrary  and  mutable,  the  presumption  is  obtraded  on  our 
minds  that  the  Great  Regent  of  the  universe  will  reward  only 
the  virtuous  subjects  of  his  rule.  This  was  the  conclusion  of  the 
heathen  mind ;  while  the  idea  of  the  present  as  a  state  of  moral 
trial,  necessitates  the  presumption  that  future  rewards  and  pun- 
ishments will  be  dispensed  according  to  moral  character.     Con- 


REV.     WILLIAM    W.     T  H  I  L  L  I  P  S,    D.  D.  45 

science,  too,  however  unwillingly,  always  bears  unerring  testi- 
mony in  favor  of  the  future  happiness  of  the  virtuous  alone.  No 
wicked  man  in  his  moments  of  solitary  reflection — while  bending 
before  "  the  secret  confessional  of  thought  " — ever  presumes  that 
he  will  be  fit  to  die  until  he  has  at  least  changed  his  course 
of  life. 

But  God's  word,  while  disclosing  a  future  state,  has  de- 
finitively settled  the  point  as  to  the  heirs  of  future  blessedness. 

Into  that  blessed  world  "  there  shall  in  no  wise  enter  anything 
that  defileth,  neither  worketh  abomination  or  maketh  a  lie ;  but 
they  which  are  written  in  the  Lamb's  book  of  life."  It  is  true 
that,  "  as  in  Adam  all  die,  so  in  Christ  shall  all  be  made  alive  ;  " 
but  they  alone  will  rise  to  the  resurrection  of  life  who  are  in  him 
"  not  haviuQ-   their  own  rio-hteousness."       It  is  true   that    "  He 

O  O 

is  the  propitiation  for  our  sins :  and  not  for  ours  only,  but  also 
for  the  sins  of  the  whole  world  ;  "  but  it  is  also  written,  "  he  that 
believeth  not  the  Son  shall  not  see  life,  but  the  wrath  of  God 
abideth  on  him."  There  is  no  salvation  for  fallen  man  without 
fiiith  in  Christ ;  and  no  true  faith  in  him  without  works ;  for 
"  with  the  heart,  man  believeth  unto  righteousness."  In  God's 
sight  actions  are  not  viewed  separately  from  the  principles  of 
actions ;  nor  philosophically  can  any  action  be  regarded  as  good 
or  bad  disjoined  from  its  principle.  The  inward,  absolute  ground 
of  all    good    works,  therefore,  is    faith.     Hence,  St.  Paul  affirms 


46  MEMORIALOF 

that  "  a  man  is  justified  by  faith  without  the  deeds  of  the  law." 
Hence,  St.  James  shows,  "  how  that  by  works  a  man  is  justified, 
and  not  by  faith  only ;  "  because  "  faith  without  works  is  dead, 
being  alone  :  "  thus  alike  harmonizing  with  Christ's  own  declara- 
tion that  "  the  hour  is  coming  in  which  all  that  are  in  the  graves 
shall  hear  His  voice,  and  shall  come  forth :  they  that  have  done 
good,  unto  the  resurrection  of  life ;  and  they  that  have  done 
evil  unto  the  resurrection  of  damnation." 

"  Not  every  one,"  then,  "  that  saith  unto  Me,  Lord,  Lord,  shall 
enter  into  the  kingdom  of  Heaven,  but  he  that  doeth  the  ^vill 
of  my  Father  in  heaven."  Not  every  one  that  dieth  is  blessed  ; 
but  only  they  who  die  in  the  Lord  :  die  in  His  fold — though  but 
in  the  infancy  of  their  earthly  life :  die  in  His  cause — whatever 
their  sphere  of  duty  in  subservience  to  that  cause ;  or  i-ather  die 
in  vital  union  with  Him :  their  life  in  Christ  giving  them  life  in 
death :  thus  "  found  in  Him,"  when  death — the  ending  of  our 
day  of  grace  — comes ;  no  matter  where,  in  what  way  or  at  what 
hour  it  may  come. 

Consider  their  conflicts  with  the  depravity  of  their  own 
hearts,  with  the  tempting  interests  of  the  world,  with  wicked 
men  in  their  opposition  to  God  and  godliness,  with  the  great 
adversary  of  souls ;  their  labors  in  consequence  of  their  own 
besetting  sins,  of  abounding  irreligion,  of  lurking  dangers,  and 
obtrudino^  fears ;   their  labors  in  much  weakness,  in  sickness,  and 


REV.     WILLIAM    W.     PHILLIPS,    D.D.  47 

sorrow,  and  death : — from  all  these  they  have  rested.  Consider 
their  works  :  how  they  wept  over  their  sins,  and  strove  after  per- 
sonal purity ;  how  they  searched  their  hearts,  and  guarded  their 
words  and  actions;  how  they  wrestled  in  prayer,  and  fought  the 
good  fight  of  faith  ;  how  they  sought  to  know  the  mind  and  will 
of  God,  and  observed  to  improve  His  providences ;  how  they 
shunned  the  haunts  and  ways  of  the  world,  and  honored  God's 
sabbaths  and  ordinances  ;  how  they  conducted  their  secular  busi- 
ness in  the  fear  of  God,  and  employed  their  talents  to  His  glory, 
and  regarded  themselves  as  strangers  and  pilgrims  on  the  earth  ; 
how  carefully  they  sought  the  w^ay  of  duty  whatever  their  callino- 
or  station  in  life ;  how  they  instructed  and  disciplined  their 
households  ;  how  they  distributed  to  the  needy,  and  carried  balm 
to  the  aching  heart  ;  how  they  aimed  to  teach  the  ignorant  and 
reclaim  the  wandering  and  reform  the  vicious ;  to  "  strengthen 
the  stakes  and  lengthen  the  cords  of  Zion ; "  to  hold  forth  the 
word  of  life,  and  in  every  appropriate  way  to  diffuse  the  knowl- 
edge of  the  "  great  salvation." 

All  these  works,  imperfect  indeed,  and  not  to  be  even  men- 
tioned as  reasons  for  their  being  saved,  have  followed  them  to 
the  bar  of  God  as  so  many  loving,  faithful  witnesses  of  their  faith 
in  Christ ;  and  that  they  "  held  fast  the  beginning  of  their  con- 
fidence steadfast  unto  the  end." 

Happy  they,  who,  when  conducted  by  angels  to  "  the  pure 


48  MEMORIALOF 

river  of  tlie  water  of  life  wbicli  clear  as  crystal  proceedeth  out  of 
the  throne  of  God  and  the  Lamb,"  will  be  able  to  reflect  that  so 
long  as  they  were  in  the  world,  they  aimed  to  promote  God's 
glory !  Thrice  happy  they  who  are  followed  there  by  souls  con- 
verted to  Christ  through  their  humble  instrumentality  ! 

It  were  inferrible  from  the  words  of  the  text,  that  the  dogma 
of  "  universal  salvation "  is  not  from  heaven ;  that  after  death 
there  is  no  place  of  temporary  suffering  in  preparative  purification 
for  heaven ;  that  the  soul  does  not  sleep  until  the  resurrection ; 
and  that  the  rewards  of  heaven  may  be  proportioned  to  our 
works.  But  more  practical  inferences  will  engage  our  concluding 
reflections. 

If  then  such  is  the  blessedness  of  those  who  die  in  the  Lord, 
how  dark,  how  malign  the  heart  that  would  abolish  Christianity. 
Our  na'ure,  though  fallen,  still  pants  after  future  bliss.  All 
nations  have  entertained  some  faint  idea  that  Paradise  might  be 
regained.  Hence  the  credibility  of  the  discoveries  of  the  gospel. 
Nowhere  else  can  we  find  any  intelligible  glimpses  of  iiiture 
existence ;  through  no  other  medium  discern  the  path  of  life. 
Does  not  virtue  in  her  natural  yearnings  look  forward  to  another 
and  a  better  world  1  In  the  absence  of  revelation,  has  not  this 
hope  been  her  only  solace  when  suffering  under  neglect  and 
scorn,  or  exposed  to  violence  ?     Now  tell  the  sons  and  daughters 


REV.     WILLIAM     W.     PHILLIPS,    D.D.  49 

of  toiling,  suffering,  sorrowing  humanity — tell  them — -as  you 
surely  mat/  on  the  authority  of  high  heaven ;  that  if  they  are 
only  united  by  faith  to  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  who  suffered  and 
died  for  them,  they  shall  at  last  enter  into  a  blessed  rest,  and 
joy  springs  up  in  every  heart.  But  infidelity  would  leave  them 
to  grapple  with  their  fate  ;  or  turn  away  with  no  piteous  ear  for 
the  cry  of  their  despair. 

As  I  stand  by  the  grave  of  buried  love,  shall  I  be  told  that 
there  is  no  reunion  with  the  loved  and  lost  on  earth  ?  When 
stretched  upon  my  own  death  couch,  mine  eye  looking  out  for  the 
last  time  upon  the  beauteous  scenes  of  earth,  and  my  poor  soul 
relieved  from  its  throes  of  anguish  only  by  the  hope  of  a  blessed 
future,  shall  I  be  told  that  the  idea  of  heaven  is  a  weak,  sickly 
illusion  ?  Wretched  men  !  to  what  would  they  reduce  us  ?  Ah, 
my  brethren,  were  it  possible,  they  would  break  up  your  peace 
with  God,  and  render  you  like  themselves  the  enemies  of  God 
and  man. 

With  how  strong  a  reason  are  we  furnished  by  the  text,  to 
hope  respecting  those  who  were  not  permitted  by  either  the  sud- 
denness of  their  summons,  or  the  nature  of  their  disease  to  give 
their  dying  testimony  to  the  value  of  the  faith  they  had  professed. 

We  are  wont  to  anticipate  something  of  the  kind,  especially 
in  the  case  of  devoted  Christians.  To  see  a  dying  man  triumph- 
ing  over  the  fear  of  death,  and  the   pains   of  dissolution  is   a 


50  MEMORIAL     OF 

phenomenon  almost  inexplicable  to  tlie  worldly  mind.  To  gather 
around  the  bed  of  a  dear  friend ;  and  as  sweet  voices  from  heaven 
are  calling  him  away — to  hear  him  telling  us  of  God  and  Jesus, 
and  that  world  of  liofht  whither  he  is  hastening^ :  as  it  were 
stopping  for  a  moment  to  bid  us  stay  our  tears — to  commend  us 
to  His  heavenly  Father,  and  serenely  take  of  us  a  last  and  long 
adieu — 'tis  most  consoling  as  well  as  tenderly  affecting. 

But  there  is  at  times  a  strange  lighting  up  of  the  faculties  as 
the  soul  is  about  to  part  with  the  body :  a  brilliancy  of  concep- 
tion and  depth  of  sentiment  far  from  natural  to  the  former  man  ; 
and  which  may  philosophically  be  viewed  as  the  blending  result 
of  entire  abstraction  from  sensible  objects,  and  the  mysterious 
influences  which  are  at  work  during  the  incipient  process  of  disso- 
lution. On  this  account  I  would  rather  see  one  during  his  life 
praising  God,  than  praising  him  only  when  he  comes  to  die. 
Perhaps  it  requires  more  grace  to  live  well  than  to  die  well. 
But  if  the  life  has  given  evidence  of  regenerated  affections,  though 
the  hours  of  the  sick  and  dying  man  may  be  clouded — his  spirit 
enters  into  heaven's  rest.  Enoch  gave  no  dying  testimony.  "  He 
was  not,  for  God  took  him ;  "  and  it  would  seem  that  one  reason 
for  this  supernatural  exemption  from  death  was  to  show  the 
prevalent  value  of  a  life  of  faith.  Whiteiield  said  that  he  should 
give  his  testimony  during  the  days  of  health  ;  and  it  is  remark- 
able that  his  lips  were  sealed  from  the  time  he  was  taken  sick. 


REV.     WILLIAM     W.     PHILLIPS,     D.D.  51 

Sucli  instances — and  to  these  might  be  added  the  cases  of  no  less 
than  four  of  our  eminent  divines  but  recently  deceased ; — may- 
assure  us  that  there  is  no  reason  to  doubt  the  salvation  of  our 
pious  friends,  though  they  spoke  not  on  their  death-bed  to  tell  us 
of  their  pardon  and  anticipated  bliss. 

The  declaration  of  the  Holy  Spirit  in  the  text,  throws  a 
shadow  over  the  future  condition  of  mere  nominal  Christians. 
If  heaven  be  a  rest  for  the  self-denying  followers  of  the  Lord 
Jesus,  how  can  they  be  the  heirs  of  heaven  who,  while  confessing 
Christ,  are  living  to  "  the  world,  with  its  affections  and  lusts." 
Is  a  spiritual,  holy  world  the  approiDriate  place  for  resting  from 
the  anxious  pursuit  of  riches,  and  the  panting  course  of  selfish 
ambition  ?  From  what  labors  then  shall  these  rest  ? — ^from  con- 
flicts with  evil  desires  and  outward  temptations  ?  They  have 
yielded  to  their  heart's  lusts,  and  settled  down  amid  the  gathered 
comforts  of  sensual  ease :  as  if  this  were  their  rest,  and  no  world  of 
spiritual  enjoyment  ever  allured  them  to  its  high  and  holy  abodes. 

What  works  shall  follow  them  ?  Ihey  never  denied  them- 
selves for  the  sake  of  Christ ;  they  went  not  about  doing  good  ; 
they  esteemed  it  not  their  meat  to  do  the  will  of  their  heavenly 
Father.  No  one,  it  may  be,  is  the  wiser  or  the  better  for  their 
having  lived.  Perhaps^  some  may  be  the  worse  for  their  having 
confessed  Christ  before  men ;  through  their  example  may  have 
persisted  in  their  own  worldliness — their  inconsistencies,  hardened 


52  MEMORIALOF 

themselves  in  iinbeliel'!  Ah,  yes;  their  works  too  shall  follow 
them ;  but  it  will  be,  not  as  evidences  of  their  faith  unfeigned, 
but  their  insincerity  unveiled ;  not  to  witness  in  mitigation  of 
their  sentence,  but  to  testify  to  the  justice  of  their  doom.  Breth- 
ren, forget  not  that  this  is  not  your  rest.  Give  all  diligence  to 
the  work  of  the  Lord,  that  you  may  make  "  your  calling  and 
election  sure  "  unto  yourselves  and  others. 

If  they  who  die  in  the  Lord  are  blessed  because  they  rest 
from  their  labors,  and  are  followed  by  their  works,  how  unsafe 
is  it  to  postpone  the  work  of  repentance  and  faith  to  a  dying 
hour. 

Never  can  I  forget  the  case  of  the  penitent  thief;  and  there- 
fore cannot  refrain  from  saying  to  the  dying  sinner — "  Do  not 
despair,  if  you  are  penitent  and  do  indeed  believe ; "  but  sure 
am  I  that  it  is  awfully  dangerous  to  defer  this  w^eighty  matter 
between  God  and  the  soul.  I  tell  you  the  hour  of  death  is  not 
the  time  for  preparation.  If  the  ever  blessed  Spirit  of  God  may 
not  have  been  grieved  from  your  heart  by  oft-repeated  repulses — 
consider !  You  may  be  seized  with  a  fever,  and  your  mind  will 
wander  away  from  God  and  eternity.  Reason  may  desert  her 
throne  from  the  moment  you  are  laid  on  that  death-bed,  and  then 
farewell  to  your  poor  soul !  Your  symptoms  may  be  aggravated 
by  the  least  excitement ;  and  even  your  dearest  friend  will  not 
dare  to  tell  you,  though  in  the  softest  tones — that  you  are  going 


REV.     WILLIAM.     W.     PHILLIPS,    D.D.  53 

to  die.  You  may  be  suddenly  arrested  in  your  career  of  world- 
liness,  and  die  "  and  make  no  sign." 

Under  the  most  favorable  circumstances  your  mind  will  sym- 
pathize with  the  feebleness  of  your  dying  body ;  and  who  shall 
say  that  anything  can  be  done  for  your  soul ;  much  less  that  at 
that  late  hour  you  will  be  able  to  find  a  "  hook  to  hang  a  hope 
on  "  for  eternity. 

In  such  an  hour — amid  the  solemnities  of  exchanfrino-  worlds 
— even  the  believer  needs  somethins;  else  to  rest  on  than  mere 
feeling.  If  he  would  have  peace  and  joy  in  believing,  he  must 
look  back,  not  to  rest  on  works,  but  that  works  may  tell  him 
where  he  has  rested  his  immortal  soul.  How  unutterably  impor- 
tant, then,  immediate  repentance  "  towards  God  and  faith  in  the 
Lord  Jesus  Christ."  A  voice  from  the  Scriptures  says — "  By 
their  fruits  ye  shall  know  them."  A  voice  from  death-beds  cries 
— "  Work  while  it  is  called  to-day."  A  voice  from  heaven  re- 
sponds— "  Yea,  that  they  may  rest  from  their  labors." 

If  such  then  be  the  blessedness  of  those  who  die  in  the  Lord, 
what  must  be  the  condition  of  those  who  die  out  of  Christ.  In 
proportion  to  the  happiness  of  the  former  is  the  misery  of  the 
latter.  As  are  the  self-gratulations  of  the  one,  so  the  self- 
reproaches  of  the  other.  As  the  one  looks  forward  without  fear, 
knowing  wJiom  he  Ijelieved,  so  the  other,  without  hope,  knowing 
whom  he  had  rejected.     As  the  one  rises  in  bliss  and  glory,  so 


54:  MEMORIALOF 

the  other  sinks  in  shame  and  woe.  All  tears  are  wiped  from  the 
eyes  of  the  one :  his  heart  beats  with  love ;  his  lips  are  vocal 
with  praise  ;  his  countenance  is  radiant  vrith  joy.  No  cares  can 
ever  disquiet  him,  no  sorrows  depress,  no  evils  annoy,  no  dangers 
alarm.  All  there  is  peace; — not  to  be  fully  imaged  by  the 
hushed  winds  pillowed  on  the  bosom  of  the  waveless  deep :  all 
is  rest,  such  as  was  never  enjoyed  by  the  tempest-tossed  mariner 
when  safely  moored  in  quiet  waters  ;  or  the  wearied  husbandman 
at  summer's  twilight  hour.  All  is  joy — "  fullness  of  joy," — such 
as  never  "  entered  into  the  heart  of  man." 

Thus  blessed  are  the  dead,  that  die  in  the  Lord :  unutterably, 
uninterruptedly  forever  blessed ;  and  while  a  voice  from  heaven 
proclaims  it,  the  church  on  earth  takes  up  the  heaven-sent  mes- 
sage, and  responds — ■"  The  souls  of  believers  at  death  do  imme- 
diately enter  into  glory." 

But  the  condition  of  those  who  die  out  of  Christ,  ah,  how 
dreadful !  No  rest  day  nor  night  from  the  remembrance  of  a 
Saviour  neglected,  the  Spirit  grieved — God  dishonored ;  no  rest 
while  eternity  rolls  on  from  the  action  of  guilty  j^assions — from 
the  gnawings  of  the  deathless,  insatiate  worm.  Followed  by 
their  works,  their  unbelief  and  impenitence,  their  hatred  and 
malice,  their  dishonesty  and  uncleanness,  their  oaths  and  blas- 
phemies, their  desecrated  sabbaths,  their  deserted  altars,  their 
despised  warnings,  their  vain  boastings — all  these  rise  and  pass 


REV.     WILLIAM    W.     PHILLIPS,    D.D.  55 

before  their  frenzied  siglit  in  endless  succession  :  their  sins — 
their  sins — each  hissing  with  the  tongue  of  an  adder  and  biting 
with  the  fangs  of  a  scorpion. 

To  die  out  of  Christ  ?  who  can  conceive  the  misery  of  that 
soul  ?  Ah  !  could  but  a  whisper  from  that  dark  world  be  heard, 
how  would  all  fiee  to  Christy  if  so  be  that  they  might  escape  the 
damnation  of  hell! 

But  I  may  no  longer  dwell  on  this  passage  of  Holy  Writ. 
Perhaps  no  one  among  his  contemporaries  inculcated  the  great 
principles  which  it  implies  more  with  decision  of  emphasis  than 
William  W.  Phillips,  D.  D.,  late  pastor  of  this  church.  Having 
embraced  the  faith  in  Christ  on  the  credit  of  revelation :  having^ 
been  called,  as  he  humbly  trusted,  of  God,  to  the  work  of  the  gos- 
pel ministry,  and  conscientiously  respecting  the  solemn  vow  which 
he  had  taken  when  set  apart  to  this  work  "  with  the  laying  on  of 
the  hands  of  the  Presbytery,"  it  was  the  aim  of  his  ministerial  life 
to  save  souls  from  going  down  to  a  Christless  grave ;  to  lead  those 
within  the  range  of  his  influence  so  to  live  that  they  might  die 
in  the  Lord  :  yea,  to  bring  sinful,  guilty,  dying  men  to  Christ  that 
they  might  be  justified  by  faith  ;  and  on  the  day  of  final  account 
be  "  found  in  Christ,  not  having  their  own  righteousness  which 
is  of  the  law,  l)ut  that  which  is  through  the  faith  of  Christ,  the 
righteousness  which  is  of  God  by  faith." 


56  MEMORIALOF 

To  this  end — lest  lie  should  deceive  himself  with  a  false  hope, 
or  lose  his  first  love,  and  thus  be  tempted  to  make  the  ministry 
a  mere  profession — he  took  great  heed  to  himself  as  well  as  to  his 
doctrine : — forming  the  habit  of  retired  devotion ;  cherishing 
sentiments  of  love  to  God  and  love  for  souls ;  scrutinizing  his 
heart  that  he  might  not  preach  without  a  true  experience  of  the 
power  of  truth  ;  regulating  his  life  according  to  the  precepts  of 
the  gospel,  that  he  might  be  "  an  example  of  the  believers  in 
word,  in  conversation,  in  charity,  in  spirit,  in  faith,  in  purity ; " 
realizing  his  own  responsibility  and  constant  needs  "  lest  while 
he  preached  to  others,  he  himself  should  be  a  castaway." 

To  this  end,  he  kept  an  eye  to  all  the  providences  of  God  : 
accustomino:  himself  to  recosrnize  God's  hand  in  all  the  events 
of  life,  as  designed  to  test  our  love  and  willing  obedience  no  less 
by  success  than  by  disappointment ;  by  mercies,  than  by  trials  : 
believing  as  he  did  that  God,  in  order  to  purify  his  people,  some- 
times suffers  them  to  be  tried  as  by  fire. 

To  this  end  also  he  made  the  Scriptures  his  prayerful  study, 
that  he  might  be  rooted  and  grounded  in  "  the  truth  as  it  is  in 
Jesus ;  "  and  "  approved  unto  God,  a  workman  that  needeth  not 
to  be  ashamed,  rightly  dividing  the  word  of  truth."  Hence  his 
remarkable  familiarity  with  Scripture  as  evinced  by  his  sermons 
and  prayers ;  so  note-worthy  in  his  tender  interviews  with  the 
sick  and  with  the  afflicted,  as  well  as  in  those  expositions  of  God's 


REV.     WILLIAM     W.     PHILLIPS,    D.D.  57 

Word  to  wliicli  lie  attached  so  much  importance,  and  in  which 
he  excelled. 

Hence,  from  his  knowledge  of  the  Scriptures,  he  regarded  the 
Lord  Jesus  Christ  in  his  several  offices  as  the  sura  and  substance 
of  God's  revelation  of  his  mind  and  will  to  a  darkened  and  alien- 
ated world :  Christ  the  Hevealer,  Christ  the  Ejceinplai\  Christ 
the  Redeemer  of  God's  elect,  Christ  the  Intercessor^  Christ,  exalted 
to  be  head  over  all  things  to  His  church  :  thus  ever  honoring  the 
Son  even  as  the  Father ;  and  thus  in  keeping  with  the  great  end 
of  his  ministry  which  he  "  had  received  from  the  Lord  Jesus," 
he  taught  the  indispensable  necessity  of  faith  in  Christ,  and 
"  affirmed  constantly  that  they  which  have  believed  in  God  might 
be  careful  to  maintain  good  works." 

Any  view  that  tended  to  divert  attention  from  the  Bible  as 
"  the  only  infallible  rule  of  faith  and  practice  ;  " — to  exalt  reason 
to  the  disparagement  of  God's  written  Word  ;  to  inflate  depravity 
with  the  delusive  idea  of  self  regeneration ;  to  supersede  the 
necessity  of  fiiith  by  a  selfish  morality ;  to  bring  down  the  Lord 
of  glory  to  the  level  of  a  mere  man ;  to  set  aside  the  doctrines 
of  grace  for  the  speculative  conclusions  of  the  unassisted  mind  ; 
to  put  the  church  in  the  place  of  her  adorable  Head  ;  to  transmute 
the  symbols  of  His  sacrificial  death  into  his  literal  body  and 
blood  ;  or  impute  their  efficacy  to  consecrated  hands  ;  in  short,  any 
human  opinion,  any  ghostly  device,  or  ceremonial  observance  that 
tended  to  invalidate  the  claims  of  God's  holy  Word,  pervert  its 


58  MEMORIAL    OF 

teachings,  and  degrade  tlie  glorious  gospel  of  the  blessed  God — 
thus  perilling  immortal  souls ! — he  withstood,  and  on  occasions 
in  unmistakable  terms  of  reprehension  and  solemn  warning.  As 
if  Paul,  the  great  champion  of  the  Christian  doctrines,  had  ex- 
claimed— "  Oh  foolish  Galatians,  who  hath  bewitched  you  that 
ye  should  not  obey  the  truth,  before  whose  eyes  Jesus  Christ  hath 
been  evidently  set  forth,  crucified  among  you." 

Strict  in  his  adherence  to  the  doctrinal  standards  of  the  church, 
as  well  as  decided  in  his  ecclesiastical  affinities,  he  was  no  less 
Scriptural  in  his  views  in  relation  to  all  measures  for  advancing 
the  cause  of  Christ :  discriminating  between  man's  work,  and  the 
work  of  the  Holy  Spirit  with  hardly  less  precision  than  between 
the  traditions  of  the  Pharisees  and  the  principles  of  the  gospel. 
Averse  to  uncommanded  days,  he  exalted  the  authority  of  the 
Sabbath,  and  kept  within  the  limits  of  the  divinely  appointed 
ordinances  of  God's  house.  Though  distrustful  of  sudden  excite- 
ments, he  failed  not  to  perceive  the  necessity  of  earnest  self  denying 
effort  and  prayerful  activity  in  the  church. 

While  magnifying  his  office,  he  was  little  in  his  own  estimation. 
Recognizing  with  thankfulness  that  diversity  of  gifts  which 
characterizes  the  ministry,  he  was  never  backward  to  give  credit 
to  any,  however  brilliant  their  talents,  or  varied  their  acquire- 
ments, so  long  as  they  preached  not  themselves  or  their  'isms ; 
nor  to  fraternize  with  any  so  long  as  he  was  not  required   to 


REV.     WILLIAM     W.     PHILLIPS,     D.D.  59 

compromise  some  essential  prirLcij^le.  While  regular  in  the  dis- 
charge of  his  pulpit  duties,  he  was  not  unmindful  of  all  that  ap- 
pertained to  the  interests  of  the  church:  her  courts  which  he 
attended  with  conscientious  promptness  and  strict  attention  to 
business,  and  over  the  highest  of  which  he  once  presided ;  her 
Boards  which  he  warmly  commended  and  habitually  aided ;  her 
missions — especially  her  foreign  missions,  which  enlisted  at  regular 
times  his  prayerful  attention — having  been  from  the  organization 
of  the  Board  here  in  1837,  Chairman  of  the  Executive  Committee, 
and  of  late  years,  President  of  the  Board ;  and  though  last,  not  to 
be  overlooked  in  an  estimate  of  his  usefulness,  his  interest  in  the 
diffusion  of  a  sound  religious  literature,  and  in  the  cause  both  of 
collegiate  and  theological  training :  he  having  occupied  the  seat 
in  the  Board  of  Publication  vacated  by  the  death  of  the  late  Dr. 
Archibald  Alexander ;  and  been  both  a  trustee  and  director  and 
President  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Theological  Seminary  at 
Princeton,  New  Jersey.  Nor  was  his  attention  limited  to  these. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Council  of  the  New  York  University ; 
and  a  trustee  of  Nassau  Hall.  By  the  terms  of  their  respective 
foundation,  he  was  ex-officio^  a  trustee  of  "  the  Leake  and  Watts' 
Orphan  Asylum,''  and  of  "  the  Sailor's  Snug  Harbor." 

It  is  unnecessary  to  retrace  his  course  from  April,  1818, 
when  having  completed  his  studies  under  the  care  of  the  late  Dr. 
John  M.  Mason,  he  was  ordained  and  installed  pastor  of  the  late 


60  MEMORIALOF 

Pearl  Street  Church,  where  he  labored  with  great  acceptance  and 
marked  success  for  eight  years ;  and  from  which  he  was  called  to 
the  First  Presbyterian  Church,  then  worshipping  in  Wall  Street, 
but  afterwards  removed  to  this  site  on  Fifth  Avenue.  It  will  be 
perceived  at  a  glance,  that  though  his  labors  were  seemingly  cir- 
cumscribed to  this  church,  of  which  he  was  pastor  for  thirty-nine 
years,  they  embraced  the  cause  of  literature  and  science  as  well 
as  the  interests  of  Christianity  at  home  and  abroad ;  of  enlight- 
ened Christian  chanty  as  well  as  the  concerns  of  personal  religion. 

These  various  offices  of  trust  were  in  God's  providence  imposed 
upon  him ;  not  sought  by  him.  In  all  other  public  relations  he 
would  willingly  have  given  place  to  those  whom  he  esteemed 
more  competent  than  himself  to  effective  influence ;  but  in  rela- 
tion to  the  work  of  the  ministry,  that  he  conceived  to  be  especially 
incumbent  on  his  time  and  talents.  Far  from  over-weening,  he 
knew  what,  by  God's  grace,  he  could  do,  and  did  it,  punctually, 
faithfully — to  the  extent  of  his  ability  in  the  various  spheres  of 
duty  in  which  he  was  placed,  with  a  clear  mind,  a  sound  judg- 
ment, and  a  true  heart. 

And  though  others  may  have  been  less  technical  in  their 
forms,  more  varied  in  their  topics,  or  more  attractive  in  style 
and  manner,  yet  no  one  entered  the  pulpit  under  a  profounder 
conviction  of  the  truth  of  his  message,  or  led  the  devotions 
of  the  sanctuary  uuder  a  deeper  sense  of  the  Divdne  presence : 


REV      WILLIAM    W.     PHILLIPS,    D.D.  Ql 

tlie  secret,  it   may  be,  of   liis    marked   spirituality  and    powei 
in  prayer. 

His  heart  was  in  the  ministry,  beating  in  unison  with  its 
claims,  its  needs,  its  duties,  its  trials,  its  responsibilities,  its  ap- 
propriate influence  ;  and  longing  for  its  crowns  of  rejoicing  in  the 
day  of  the  Lord.  Hence,  his  interest  in  youthful  ministers,  as 
well  as  pity  for  those  among  his  brethren  who  might  have  been 
wronged,  or  were  struggling  with  difficulties ;  his  tears  over  the 
grave  of  youthful  promise ;  his  words  of  encouragement  to  the 
young  communicant ;  his  joy  over  the  returning  prodigal ;  his 
tender  remembrance  of  the  far  distant  missionary ;  his  lamenta- 
tions over  the  dark  places  of  the  earth,  so  full  of  the  habitations 
of  cruelty ;  his  concern  for  those  who  are  living  at  home  in  the 
neglect  of  their  privileges ;  his  sympathy  with  the  troubled  and 
tried  ;  his  prayers  so  Scriptural!  y  appropriate  by  the  bedside  of 
the  sick  and  the  dying. 

A  true  servant  of  the  cross — in  full  sympathy  with  all  who 
love  the  Lord  Jesus,  and  with  all  Scriptural  means  to  extend 
his  kingdom,  his  field  was  the  world ;  yet  though  conspicuously 
devoted  to  the  cause  of  foreign  missions,  he  overlooked  not  the 
spiritual  waste  places  of  his  own  land ;  nor  the  perils  to  which 
she  is  exposed  from  the  stealthy  approaches  of  the  man  of  sin,  on 
the  one  hand,  and  the  ascendancy  of  godless  politics  on  the  other. 
A  heart  so  true  to  her  spii'itual  interests  as  well  as  her  civil  and 


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religious  rights,  could  not  have  been  false  to  his  own  civil  obliga- 
tion in  the  hour  of  her  fiery  trial — no  matter  who  might  dissent 
from  his  Scriptural  conclusions,  or  turn  away  from  his  min- 
istrations. 

Trials,  he  indeed  had — such  as  no  one  can  hardly  expect  to 
avoid  who  will  preach  the  plain  truth  of  God's  Word,  whether 
men  will  hear,  or  whether  they  will  forbear :  trials  too,  from 
which  even  such  men  of  God  as  Baxter  and  Payson,  were  not 
exempt ;  but  they  were  sanctified  trials,  and  while  "  committing 
himself  to  Him  who  judgeth  righteously,"  in  his  case  the  inspired 
declaration  was  illustriously  verified :  "  If  ye  be  reproached  for 
the  name  of  Christ,  happy  are  ye,  for  the  spirit  of  glory  and  of 
God  resteth  on  you." 

Having  thus  spoken  of  Dr.  Phillips,  as  a  minister,  I  need  not 
speak  of  him  in  his  intercourse  with  his  people,  or  with  society ; 
much  less  in  his  domestic  relations :  so  courteous  was  he,  and 
withal  dignified ;  grave  without  austerity ;  finn,  but  kind ;  pa- 
tient, though  determined ;  retiring,  yet  unselfish ;  listening  well, 
rather  than  talking  much  ;  thankful  for  any  favor  ;  ready  to  be- 
friend. Those  who  knew  him  best  only  respected  him  the  more, 
as  they  who  were  bound  to  him  in  the  tenderest  of  human  ties, 
loved  him  the  more ;  but  not  with  a  purer  sentiment  of  esteem 
than  they — whether  rich  or  poor — (the  highest  tribute  that  can 
be  paid  to  an  aged  pastor) — who  had  sat  the  longest  under  his 


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ministry.  I  may  not  speak  of  "his  loss  to  them — those  elders  who 
in  so  long  holding  up  his  hands,  now  feel  only  the  more  their  own 
needs ;  those  aged  communicants  who  had  fondly  hoped  that  he 
would  be  spared  to  minister  to  their  own  dying  hour  :  much  less 
of  his  loss  to  his  numerous  family.  I  can  only  commend  them  to 
the  merciful  kindness  of  the  God  of  all  grace  and  consolation  ; 
and  gently  tell  them  not  to  weep ;  but  rather  hless  God  that  he 
was  spared  to  them  through  so  many  years — making  theirs,  under 
God's  kind  providence,  a  happy  home ;  and  that  he  was  taken 
away  at  the  right  time,  in  the  right  place,  in  the  right  way. 

Though  disease  was  rapidly  sapping  his  bodily  strength,  yet 
retaining  his  intellectual  vigor,  and  growing  in  grace,  he  worked 
on  in  his  accustomed  method :  preaching  w4ien  most  ministers 
would  have  procured  a  supply ;  experiencing  in  his  pulpit  a 
degree  of  relief  from  pain  which  was  denied  to  him  at  home ; 
enjoying  the  services  of  the  sanctuary  with  increasing  spiritual 
delight ;  providing  for  his  pulpit  when  finally  unable  to  leave 
his  room  ;  during  his  brief  intervals  of  physical  relief,  writing  his 
last  sermon,  though  he  knew  it  not. 

On  the  desk  of  his  study  lay  that  unfinished  manuscript  from 
the  significant  text :  "  There  is  hope  of  a  tree,  if  it  be  cut  down, 
that  it  will  sprout  again,  and  that  the  tender  branch  thereof  will 
not  cease ;  though  the  root  thereof  wax  old  in  tlie  earth,  and  the 
stock  thereof  die  in  the  ground.     *     *     *     But  man  dieth  and 


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wasteth  away  :  yea,  man  giveth  up  tlie  ghost,  and  where  is 
he?" 

It  was  in  the  room  adjoining  his  study  that,  notwithstanding 
his  extreme  feebleness  and  incessant  bodily  pain,  he  met  the 
session  of  his  church,  opened  the  meeting  with  a  most  touchingly 
appropriate  prayer — after  having  calmly  replied  to  the  solicitous 
inquiry  of  his  elders  respecting  his  health  :  "  If  it  should  please  God 
to  spare  my  life  a  little  longer,  I  shall  gratefully  accept  the  mercy  ; 
if  not,  I  trust  that  grace  will  be  given  me  to  meet  my  latter  end." 

Some  faint  hopes  were  entertained  of  his  recovery ;  but  the 
third  day  after  this  meeting  of  session — while  his  people  were 
gathered  round  the  communion  table,  and  he  himself,  though  ab- 
sent in  person,  was  communing  with  them  in  spirit,  and  with  his 
blessed  Lord  in  private — a  sudden  change  in  his  disease  "  foretold 
the  ending  of  mortality." 

He  had  borne  his  suffering  without  a  murmur;  he  had  con- 
templated the  probability  of  his  approaching  end  with  the  even 
serenity  of  trust ;  he  died  without  being  able  to  tell  us  whither 
he  was  going :  but  he  has  rested  from  his  labors  and  his  works 
do  follow  him. 

As  I  look  back  this  day  upon  his  ministry,  I  am  impressively 
reminded  of  those  who  preceded  him  in  the  pastorate  of  this 
church — the  venerable  Rodgers,  the  circumspect  and  erudite 
Miller,  the  beloved  Whelpley — so  early  ripe  for  heaven ;   min- 


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isters  whose  memory  is  still  fragrant  in  tlie  churches ;  and  those 
elders,  too,  who  supported  this  church  from  its  earliest  organi- 
zation ;  held  fast  the  form  of  sound  words,  and  died  in  the 
Lord. 

How  many  cherished  names  has  this  church  recorded  ;  how 
many  solemn  vows  have  here  been  made ;  how  many  baptismal 
seals  of  the  covenant  have  here  been  set ;  how  many  sacra- 
mental seasons  enjoyed ;  how  many  have  gone  forth  thence  to 
various  spheres  of  usefulness,  even  to  the  ends  of  the  earth — 
carrying  with  them  the  glad  tidings  of  great  joy ;  how  various 
the  influences  for  man's  good  and  God's  glory  which  have 
emanated  from  this  pulpit  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  in 
this  city ;  and  how  many — some  near  and  dear  to  us — and  who 
but  lately  joined  in  the  devotions  of  this  sanctuary,  have  died  in 
the  Lord,  and  gone  to  be  forever  with  the  Lord.  "  Precious  in 
the  sight  of  the  Lord  is  the  death  of  His  saints."  How  glorious 
Tvill  be  our  departed  brother's  meeting  with  those  whom  he  had 
instrumentally  won  to  Christ,  and  directed  on  their  heavenward 
way.  How  blessed  the  communion  of  the  saints  in  glory !  How 
delightful  the  renewed  intercourse  of  those  who  once  took  sweet 
counsel  together  and  walked  to  the  house  of  God  in  company — 
to  meet — to  meet  where  there  will  be  no  parting — those  who 
have  sat  with  us  at  the  table  of  Jesus,  and  partaken  of  the  same 

cup  of  blessing  !   to  join  the  innumerable  company  of  angels,  and 
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the  churcli  of  the  first-born — to  be  forever  in  this  blessed  company, 
and  quenching  our  thirst  in  the  rivers  of  pleasure  which  flow  fast 
by  the  throne  of  God  and  the  Lamb. 

O  !  could  your  late  beloved  pastor  but  speak  to  us  from  that 
heavenly  world,  with  what  glowing  accents  of  affection  would  he 
say — "  Weep  not  for  me.  My  Beloved  is  mine,  and  I  am  His. 
I  am  saved  through  free  grace.  I  have  rested  from  my  feeble 
labors,  and  my  works,  though  not  worth  speaking  of  on  earth, 
have  in  remembrance  followed  me,  and  in  testimony  spoken  for 
me.  But  could  I  have  had  any  adequate  conception  of  the  glory 
to  be  revealed,  how  would  I  have  loved  and  lived !  how  zealous 
for  God's  glory  in  the  salvation  of  dying  sinners^the  triiunphs 
of  redeemino;  love  !  " 

But  we  cannot  hear  his  voice :  it  is  blended  with  the  voices 
of  all  those  out  of  every  nation  and  people,  and  kindred  and 
tongue,  who  before  the  throne,  and  hard  by  "  the  sea  of  glass '» 
now  sins:  the  new  sono;,  and  will  forever  ascribe  salvation  unto 
the  Lamb. 

But  we  have  heard  a  voice  fi'om  heaven — (oh  that  it  might 
sound  in  our  ear  until  every  saint  shall  aAvake  to  righteousnesss, 
and  every  saint  gird  himself  anew  for  the  work  of  faith)  !  for 
the  voice  has  said — "  Blessed  are  the  dead  which  die  in  the  Lord 
from  hencefoi-th ;  yea,  saith  the  Spirit — (ratifying  what  we  have 
heard ;)    that  they  may  rest  from  their  labors." 


OF   THE 

FIRST    PRESBYTERIAN    CHURCH, 

May  1st,  1865. 


JAMES   DONALDSON,  WALTER   LOWRTE, 

AARON    R.   THOMPSON,  AARON   B.   BELKNAP. 


frwstm. 

EDWARD   S.   JAFFRAY,  HENRY   M.   TABER, 

HENRY   NICOLL,  THOMAS   C.    CHALMERS, 

STEPHEN    BURKHALTER,  ROBERT   L.    KENNEDY, 

JAMES   L.    BANKS,  WILLIAM   K.    HERRICK, 

HEZEKIAH  KING. 


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